I used to work for Best Buy's Geek Squad and they had an internal tool called L.A.S.E.R. I can't remember what the acronym means, but it was this amazing tool.

It's sole purpose was to run hardware and anti-malware scans and if the customer paid for it, the tool would remove all infections found. The greatest thing about it, was that it utilized a bunch of different command line scanners to remove viruses automatically.

The key word here, is automatically. I'm sure most of us has had family members and friends bring us their computers when they had a virus and to remove viruses, we have to run several different scanners just to make sure it's clean.

This is almost always the exact process we use anytime a computer is already infected. Antivirus apps are awesome and most of them do a great job, but once a machine is infected, it's highly unlikely one app will completely clean it.

So, don't you think it would be nice to have a tool like Geek Squad's L.A.S.E.R. and not pay 200 USD for each scan?

The logs are kept on the machine and you can use AVERT later to view the logs to see how many infections were found for each scanner and how many infections each scanner removed. The totals for all are also shown.

All of the scanners in AVERT are free, but there are two exceptions. 1. Panda does not provide free signatures. AVERT does include some signatures, but for the latest signatures, you'll need to purchase a license, any license, from Panda and save your credentials in the settings window. 2. AviraAntivir command line scanner is also free, but you need to purchase a license in order to use it. In Avira's directory, you'll find a license file (HBEDV.KEY). You'll need to put this file in the AviraAntivir command line zip file (\AVERT\Scanners\AviraAntivir\scancl.zip).

I think that's it! Using AVERT is super easy, but if you have any questions or problems, please let me know.

You make it sound as if AVERT cannot be used without paying. If you're referring to signatures, you have the choice of purchasing signatures for Panda and Avira, but if you don't, you can still use 6 of the 7 scanners and get the latest signatures for 5 of the scanners. Panda can still be used without a license because they have allowed me to package some signatures with the initial package.

But like I mentioned, AVERT is free and be used effectively without paying for signatures.

Also, I've identified 2, maybe 3 more free scanners and wwill be adding them to AVERT as soon as I can